A beginner’s guide to the best of breed tools and capabilities for your Data Platform initiative If you Google “modern data platform”, you’ll immediately be bombarded with advertisements and lots of companies professing that they are the one true data platform. Not so helpful, right? So what the heck is a modern data platform? What does that even mean, andwhat…
We thought it would be easy enough to figure this out, but we couldn’t have been more wrong. At Atlan, we started out as a data team ourselves, driving data projects for social good with organizations like the United Nations, Gates Foundation, the World Bank, etc. We acted as a “data team” for our customers, so we experienced all the chaos…
Background As a licensed digital peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform in South East Asia, Funding Societies | Modalku is subject to several regulatory and compliance requirements which factor into its data strategy. Data is becoming an increasingly valuable asset and gives rise to significant competitive advantages in the FinTech world. Indeed, without high quality data and upward reporting of meaningful management…
Background As a licensed digital peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform in South East Asia, Funding Societies | Modalku is subject to several regulatory and compliance requirements which factor into its data strategy. Data is becoming an increasingly valuable asset and gives rise to significant competitive advantages in the FinTech world. Indeed, without high quality data and upward reporting of meaningful management…
Modern metadata solutions, data quality frameworks, infrastructure, job roles, and other big changes are on their way. Just like every other realm, 2020 upended the data world. When COVID shut down businesses and sent employees to work from home, companies had to quickly adapt to the “new normal”. Cloud became an absolute necessity, as organizations moved to working remotely. Data…
It’s time for a modern metadata solution, one that is just as fast, flexible, and scalable as the rest of the modern data stack 2020 brought a lot of new words into our everyday vocabulary — think coronavirus, defund, and malarkey. But in the data world, another phrase has been making the rounds… the modern data stack. The data world has recently converged around…
What do you think came first, newspapers or newsletters? Why do I ask? Not to establish which one’s better but to highlight that newsletters are the oldest and latest medium of knowledge distribution. Newsletters started in ancient Rome as hand-written pieces of information for a group of people, which were later transformed into newspapers for a wider audience. The culture…
Discover how to successfully handle collaboration, security, team morale and management for remote data teams Going 100% remote for data teams is #$%*ing hard and chaotic. Miscommunications can become commonplace. Productivity can be difficult to monitor. Remote team members (i.e. your people) can easily lose track of the big picture and feel isolated, disconnected or left out. That’s why so…
Find out how your remote data team can 4x its productivity with scrum If you’re here, I’m hoping you’ve read my previous article on the toughest challenges that remote data team leaders faced with agile. Now let’s roll up our sleeves and dive right into the solutions. Like I mentioned in the previous post, our co-founders and I were on…
From collaboration and dependencies to productivity, find out what are the top challenges that remote data team leaders face with agile. Raise your hand if you’ve ever planned a data project. 🤚 You, my friend, deserve a standing ovation. Because you know how difficult, complex and frustrating it can be. You have to: Work with your data engineers to extract…